Laravel Vite Deployment to Host

# Fixing Laravel Vite Deployment: Why Your Assets Load as `localhost` and How to Deploy Correctly As a senior developer, I’ve seen countless deployment headaches, and one of the most frustrating—yet common—issues involves modern frontend tooling like Vite. You’ve built your application perfectly locally, run `npm run build`, upload everything to your shared host, but the CSS and JavaScript files refuse to load, often pointing back to `http://127.0.0.1:5173`. This is a classic symptom that points directly to a mismatch between how Vite generates asset references during development and how those references are interpreted in a production, deployed environment. Let’s dive deep into why this happens and the exact configuration changes you need to make to resolve it. ## Understanding the Root Cause: The Development vs. Production Divide The error messages you are seeing—where the browser attempts to fetch resources from `http://127.0.0.1:5173`—indicate that the client-side code (the injected `` and `